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Theobroma cacao
Cacao flower
Macro shot to show the small cacao flower that grows from the trunk of the tree.
leaves in the air
Ecuador, a gust of wind picks up fallen cacao leaves as the land owner follows their path.
Cacao pods
Ecuador, Cacao trees with pods
cacao pods
Ecuador, a cacao tree with a number of pods ready for harvest.
cacao pod
Honduras, a pod hanging on a cacao tree.
coacao beans
Honduras, a few cacao beans drying in the sun.
Musa
On this page are the plants that provide the ripe yellow bananas. With an essentially seedless fruit, the plant reproduces with child plants that offshoot from the base of the mother plant. At maturity the banana plant stops producing leaves and sends a flower stem up the center of the pseudostem that will result in the banana stem. As the fruit grows on the stem the plant will lose leaves, it is important that the banana plant has at least five leaves at the time the flower emerges in order for the plant to have the strength to grow the fruit to the desired maturity.
Banana plant
Ecuador, banana plant that has not year reached maturity. The pseudostem is made up of the rolled bases of leaves and the typical banana plant has a pseudostem reaching 2 to 3 meters in height.
Banana plant with fruit
Ecuador, banana plant with fruit ready for harvest and follower plant. The plant will only product one stem of bananas. From a number of follower (or Child) plants a selection is made of one plant that will produce the next banana stem.
banana plantation
Ecuador, view of banana plantation from a small overlook.
Banana plantation
Honduras, a banana plantation in the Sula Valley. Visible is effect of the wind on the wide banana leaf. This wind damage does not affect the vigor of the plant, but strong gusts of wind can blow over a mature banana plant.
afternoon sun
Ecuador, banana plantation with a late afternoon sun hitting the plants.
harvest time
Honduras, a banana plantation with harvested banana stems hanging from the cable-way as they are towed to the packing plant.
Banana plantation
Guatemala, a long canal for supplying water for the irrigation system used in the banana plantation.
Musa paradisiaca
plantain fruit
Honduras, plantain fruit with flowers on ends ends of fingers
Plantain leaf
Early morning with sun hitting the dew on the wide plantain leaf.
Plantain flower
plantain bunch
Honduras, a few fingers of plantain on the plant.
plantain flower
Honduras, flower of the plantain plant with small fingers of the plantains
Flower
Flowers
Flowers in Greenhouse
Red Bougainvillea with flower
Early morning sunlight highlighting the one open flower bud open in this group within the red bracts of this tropical bougainvillea.
three purple flowers
red flowers
3 pastel flowers
three pastel flowers
Yellow Bougainvillea
Yellow Bougainvillea
coffea
Coffee flower
Ecuador, a small coffee flower.
coffee plants
Ecuador, looking down a row of coffee plants at farm.
coffee plant
Ecuador, coffee plant with drip irrigation.
coffee farm
Ecuador, farm with young Robusta coffee plants.
coffee plant
Ecuador - recently planted coffee plant with drip irrigation system.
Elaeis guineensis
oil palm
Honduras, oil palm fruit ready for harvest
Oil Palm
Honduras, Oil Palm plants
Oil Palm
Atlantida (Honduras), Oil Palm
oil palm
Honduras, clusters of oil palm fruit ready for harvest
oil palm
Colombia, oil palm nursery
oil palm
Oil Palm fruit cluster.
Oil Palm
Finger-like male inflorescence of the oil palm.
oil palm
Finger-like male inflorescence of the oil palm.
Oil Palm Nursery
Irrigation at an oil palm nursery.
Vitis
grapevines
Grapes
Mexico
Grapes
Mexico
Grape Farm
Peru, grape farm
greenhouses, nursery, viveros, tunnels
Nursery
trays
Greenhouse
Bell Pepper.
Propagation
Misting system in greenhouse for plant propagation.
Plant Nursery
Ecuador, Cacao plants in nursery
orange lemon lime and also some mango
Pomelo
Citrus
Ananas comosus
mountain grown pineapple
Pineapple
Mexico
Pineapple
Mexico
Pineapple
Irrigation projects for pineapple in Mexico. Harvest time.
Saccharum
sugarcane plant
Sugarcane leaves
Vaccinium oxycoccos
cranberry
Chile, 2007, frost control system by sprinkler irrigation on cranberry farm.
z. mays
Corn
Guatemala, Sprinkler irrigation system on corn crop.
corn farm
Ecuador, irrigation system operating on corn farm.
corn farm
Ecuador, irrigation system operating on corn farm.
big gun
Ecuador, testing of big gun for irrigation on corn farm.
pasture irrigation
Ecuador, pasture land irrigation
pasture irrigation
Ecuador, pasture irrigation with sprinklers